"When I was growing up in Roswell, New Mexico, no one worked in a restaurant unless they were too dumb to get a job at the service station." Norman Brinker, Brinker International, addressing the Society of Foodservice Managers on how times have changed in the industry.

"There is no way that an aircraft capable of flying under it's own power will be built in the next 30 years" Wilbur Wright, 1902.

"Be excellent to each other." -bills and Ted's... yadda yadda yadda

"48K ought to be enough for anybody" Bill Gates 1977.

"The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and by Shakespeare. Neither knew chocolate. The Swiss are known for nonviolence. They are also known for superb chocolate." Sandra Boynton in Chocolate: The Consuming Passion

I like that one!!!

"...A little dish of something can spread balm on a wounded psyche, restore balance where there was despondency, the way a gentle spring rain makes a dusty world sparkle again." Nika Hazelton in I Cook As I Please

What a marvellous philosophy!

It is no coincidence that LSD and BSD(unix) both got their start in Berkeley. --Usenix....

ha-ha!

"Clowns can get away with murder." --John Wayne Gacy

"Comfort food don't take us back to the womb, but to the period shortly thereafter, when we were safely cradled and gently fed. Fragrant stews, thick soups and bubbling gratins make us feel safe, warm and well protected from the raging elements...and so forget the stresses of a sometimes cruel world." --Sue Kreitzman, Author of Comfort Food

"When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in it in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries." --The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame

That is vivid!

Makes one want some toast, doesn't it?

"Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin cold slice of butter to every forkful." --Nora Ephron in Heartburn

Nora Ephron. What is it about this name that is so compelling? Isn't she some kind of arch conservative a la Rush Limbaugh. Gotta be compelled by the name though. Nora Ephron. Nora Ephon. Nora . . .

"Some people will applaud you for being authentic, but in the end, people want to eat." --Carlo Middione

Very true.

"The dessert is said to be to dinner what the madrigal is to literature-- it is the light poetry of the kitchen." --George Ellwanger in "Pleasures of the Table" published in 1903

"The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter." --Barbara Cartland

"Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn." --Garrison Keillor

"Mountain Dew and powdered doughnuts... because breakfast is the most important meal of the day." --Ray Lopez

"The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 a.m." --Charles Pierce

"Great food is like great sex--the more you have the more you want." --Gail Greene

and for Terry... "In my sex fantasy, no one loves me for my mind." --Nora Ephron

"The manager has personally passed all the water served here." --from a hotel sign in Acapulco, Mexico

Yummy!

"I guess this isn't really a peeve, just the misuse of the english language. When you go to pay your bill at a restaurant and they ask, "How was everything?" I always say, "I didn't have everything." That always throws them off. Why can't they just ask how my meal was?" Grouchy Grandma

Love that last quote...My kind of lady! *lol*

Restaurateur Blasts Hygiene Obsession LONDON (Reuters) - British restaurateur Terence Conran said Friday the country's obsession with hygiene was making people sick. ``All sorts of rules and regulations and official bodies and bureaucracy are now in place to prevent that legendary speck of dirt getting into our system,'' Conran wrote in a letter to the Independent newspaper. ``The result of all this hygiene is we become more and more sensitive to illness and bacteria,'' Conran added, before apologizing for being a ``non-scientific Charlie.'' In his vision of the future, hygiene-obsessed Britons would drop dead after eating couscous in Tangiers while the locals would be perfectly healthy, Conran said. Conran's comments followed an article in the Independent which asked: ``Why are we becoming allergic to modern life?.''